Winter TV Preview: 20 Notable Shows
Are you ready for not one, not two, but three different reinventions of the comic book TV series? How about period dramas starring Tom Hardy and Christina Ricci? A look at the life of another English queen, or a fictitious American pope? The return of The Good Wife and 24? Or perhaps all you need is a Series of Unfortunate Events.
Those concepts and more are headed to the small screen between now and early March. Find details on 20 noteworthy upcoming shows (both new and returning series, plus miniseries) below, ordered by date. And, for more premiere dates and details on every upcoming show (including those not profiled here), visit our 2017 TV Premiere Calendar.
They were one of the 20th century's first celebrity couples. Christina Ricci stars as Zelda Sayre before and during her rocky relationship with writer F. Scott Fitzgerald (Gavin Stenhouse) in a period series from The Killing vets Dawn Prestwich and Nicole Yorkin, adapting Anne Fowler's best-seller Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald. Amazon appears to have given up on calling it a comedy—critics who reviewed the pilot last year (which you can watch here) found nothing funny about it—but episodes still clock in at around 30 minutes.